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WITNESSES A TORNEYS.

IL PET-EH8, PFIOYO'UTHOGRI-PIIER, WASHINGTON. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AMEDEE HOURDEAUX, or LITOHTENFELS, BAVARIAJGERMANY.

BASKET-HANDLE ATTACH MENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,482, dated July 27,1880.

Application filed April 27, 1880. (Model) Patented in Germany July 16,1879.

To all whom t'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, AMEDE'E HOURDEAUX, of Lich tenfels, Bavaria,Germany, have invented a new and Improved Basket-Handle Attachment, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved attachmentfor basket-handles, which is simple in construction and produces a verydurable handle.

The invention consists of a staple passing through an eyelet at the endof the handle and through two slotted disks on the outer and the innersides of the wiekerwork of the basket, the ends of which staple are thenlapped down on the surface of the inner disk to prevent the staple frombeing drawn out by the handle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a handle andpart of a basket provided with my improved attachment. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional elevation of the same on line aa, Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a cross-sectional elevation on line y 3 Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detailplan view of the metal strip forming the staple, and Fig. 5 is aplanview of the disks or plates for fastening the staple.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

An eye is formed at each end of the handle B of a basket by means of ametal ring, C,

which has one of its edges slightly bent over,

and is then passed into an eye formed of split cane at the ends of thehandle in the ordinary manner, opon which the other edge of the ring 0is also pressed or bent outward, so as to pre-.

vent the ring from falling out of the ends of the handle B.

A flat strip, D, of metal is provided with narrow ends a a and a widermiddle part, whereby shoulders are formed a short distance from each endof the said strip, which is then bent into the shape of a U and oneshank passed through the eye A. Both shanks are then passed through theslots 1) b of a metal disk or plate, E, on the outer side of thewickerwork F until the shoulders of the strip D rest against the disk E.The projecting ends of the strip are then passed through the wickerworkF of the basket and through the slots in a plate or disk, G, on theinner side of the wicker-work, and are then bent over so as to lie upagainst the surface of the disk or plate G. Each end of the handle isattached to a staple formed by a strip, D.

The disks or plates E G may be of any desired size or shape and of anysuitable material.

A handle or other device can thus be fastened to any kind of wicker-workor like articles in a simple and durable manner. The strain of thehandle will not only hear on one or two rods or strands, as heretofore,but will be distributed among several of them, and the bearings are sobroad that the rods or strands will not be out or chat'ed by the same.Not only handles, but also bearing straps and cords or other carryingdevices can be attached to the staples formed by the strips D D.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patcut- The combination, with a wicker-basket, F, ofthe handle B, having at each end an eye formed of a bent and wrappedstrip and an eyelet, the flat strip D, wide at the middle and narrow atthe ends, the plate E, having slots 1) b, and the slotted plate G, asand for the purpose specified.

AMEDEE HOURDEAUX.

Witnesses:

G. FRANZ ScHELL, BOHLEIN.

